EIWA

EIWA operates as an agricultural technology firm focused on data solutions, originally founded in Argentina in 2014 and now headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was established by Nicolas Otamendi, who serves as CEO, and Marcelo Gowland. Their team is comprised of an interdisciplinary group of agronomy engineers, developers, and precision agriculture specialists. Positioned as a data cloud ecosystem, EIWA secured an undisclosed amount in a Series A funding round in March 2023, led by Serra Ventures, to expand its commercial teams in the US, Brazil, and Argentina and to further develop its platform. Previously, the company had raised \$1.62 million over three rounds from investors including The Yield Lab and Cultivation Capital.

The core of EIWA's business is the Eiwa Vault, a cloud-based platform that provides critical infrastructure for integrating and analyzing agricultural data from disparate sources and formats. The platform is designed to serve a business-to-business market, targeting entities in the farm input sector such as seed and crop protection companies, crop nutrition and biologicals suppliers, and research institutions. Its primary function is to help these clients digitize and standardize the data collection and analysis process for field trials, thereby accelerating their research, development, and go-to-market strategies. The business model is structured as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), where clients pay an annual license fee. Pricing is determined by the number of plots or trials and the level of functionality accessed.

The Eiwa Vault platform enables clients to manage and interpret complex information by turning various data layers, including those from drones and IoT devices, into structured, actionable insights. It helps users geolocate trial plots, automate data collection through a scouting app, and analyze field trial data at scale to improve yields and margins. For instance, it assists in standardizing seed trial data management, tracking environmental impacts on seed development, and monitoring fields to protect crops from changing conditions. By offering a centralized platform, EIWA allows for more consistent data analysis across multiple locations, ultimately helping clients mobilize their agronomic knowledge and make more informed decisions.

Keywords: agtech, data analytics, precision agriculture, farm data management, agricultural data cloud, Eiwa Vault, crop science, seed development, crop protection, SaaS, agronomic knowledge, field trial analysis, farm input companies, digital agriculture, Nicolas Otamendi, Marcelo Gowland, data integration, drone analytics, agricultural IoT, research and development